District Nurse/ Senior Community Nurse/ Caseload Manager

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Bedworth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 6 Senior District Nurse / Senior Community Nurse / Caseload Manager to lead and support a community nursing team. The post focuses on assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of complex care in patients’ homes and community settings.

The role involves clinical supervision, service development, and contributing to education for staff and students while promoting patient safety and independence and reducing hospital

Job description

The Senior District Nurse / Senior Community Nurse/ Caseload Manager (Band 6) plays a key leadership and clinical role within the community nursing team, providing expert care to a defined population while supporting staff development and service improvement. The post holder is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of complex care, focusing on preventing hospital admissions, promoting independence, and managing long‑term conditions and end-of-life care.

Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, the role ensures the delivery of safe, evidence‑based, and person‑centred care within patients' homes and community settings. The Senior Nurse also has responsibility for caseload management, clinical supervision, and supporting the wellbeing and performance of team members.

As a visible and proactive clinical leader, the post holder will contribute to service development, quality improvement, and the education of staff and students, ensuring that care delivery meets national and local standards., The District Nurse / Senior Community Nurse is responsible for the assessment and management of the health needs of an identified population and caseload, focusing on public health, preventative care, and admission avoidance. They will support the team in implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within a range of target groups including preventative deterioration of complex health, health inequalities, social prescribing and signposting, management of comorbidities and supporting the prevention of an urgent care need., The nurse will clinically supervise and provide support to regulated and unregulated team members with career development, clinical capabilities and behaviours, education and supervision. They will assist the Professional Lead with recruitment and retention, support the wellbeing of the team and improve quality outcomes and budget management as well as implementing service improvement schemes and supporting in pathway development

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2